Leonard Bernstein () Bernstein's pronunciation of his own name as he introduces his Peter and the Wolf (August 25 1918 ? October 14 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was the first conductor born and educated in the United States of America to receive world-wide acclaim, and is known for both his conducting of the New York Philharmonic, including the acclaimed Young People's Concerts series, and his compositions, including West Side Story, Candide, and On the Town. He is known to baby boomers primarily as the first classical music conductor to make many television appearances, all between 1954 and 1989. Biography Childhood Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1918 to a Jewish family from Rivne, now Ukraine. His grandmother insisted his first name be Louis, but his parents always called h

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